[Sybeck1]

Stand strong!

[NewJerseyJoe]

Whaddya know — a Republican with stones. I thought those days were long gone....

[Comparative Advantage]

Don’t give in, Linda! North Carolineans deserve better than being dictated to by country club, socialist Republicans in DC and NYC.

You go girl!!

[TornadoAlley3]

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[roses of sharon]

So TV stations will run ads from the UnAmerican Democrat Party, but not Republicans.

Has this station ran ads from MoveOn.org?

[Dog Gone]

"I think it is inflammatory," said Jim Hefner, vice president and general manager at WRAL. "If that spot was about Senator Obama, that would be one thing. What do Perdue and Moore have to do with Barack Obama's minister?"

the ad draws the connection. I wonder which candidate Hefber supports.

Not really.

[Ilya Mourometz]

It’s a win-win situation. McCain can do whatever he likes—there’s no way the Dems can use this against him no matter how it turns out. What are they gonna do, run ads that say “McCain refused to badger NC GOP to take down ads showing Obama’s ties to radical preacher Wright”. There’s nothing they can do without themselves drawing more attention to the Obama-Wright connection. NC is right to keep the ads up, McCain is smart to distance himself.

[eyedigress]

"What do Perdue and Moore have to do with Barack Obama's minister?"

Well Mr. Hefner, they support a man whose spiritual advisor hates America and has had great influence over him. Anything else flying over your head you need explained?

[Interesting Times]

"I can't be emphatic enough that we're running the ad," Daves said, reports David Ingram. "We are not pulling the ad. It has never been a consideration for us to pull the ad."

Clear, direct, unequivocal. Can we clone this guy?

[Gator113]

Run what you want, it doesn’t matter anymore.

Today, while in NO, McCain made it clear that he’s running for the democrat ticket, and he’s going to try to beat Bush.

So don’t worry about anything McCain says about the RNC....run the ad.

[Stoat]

Linda Daves | Vice Chairman

Linda Daves was elected Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party in May 1999 and reelected at the NCGOP conventions in May 2001 and May 2003.  Prior to that she served in several positions in the Mecklenburg County Republican Party including serving four years as Chairman after two years as Vice Chairman.

Linda has worked in numerous campaigns over the years to elect Republicans.  In her most recent campaign she served as Mecklenburg County’s coordinator for the state party’s Victory 2002 regional phone bank to elect U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole.  In 2000 she was the Mecklenburg County grassroots coordinator for George W. Bush for President and the coordinator for the state party’s Victory 2000 regional phone bank in Mecklenburg.

Linda’s past experience includes teaching junior and senior high school for six years after college.  She worked as Vice President of a family owned textile business for fourteen years.  For the past seven years she has spent her time managing her and her husband Carson’s rental properties in Charlotte where they live.She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a MEd from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Linda says that if there were one idea she could impart to all Republicans it would be this:  “One person can make a difference.”

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[jwalsh07]

Atta girl Linda!

Expose racist, anti-American loons and those who associate with them.

And to hell with John McCain.

[vetvetdoug]

Good for Daves. Finally a Republican that knows how to go for the jugular and make it done right. Playing pussyfoot with the Democrats won't work. If the Democrats had this kind of ammunition against a Republican candidate, they would use it ad nauseum. I never can understand why RINO Republicans always want to play patticake with the Democrats when all they want is it all and obliterate the Republican. This is a war for the country and lets' use what is at hand.

[Drango]

hear Daves on NPR...the NPR reporterete was very snarky...Why are you beating your husband type of questions...only it was “Why are you running this bigoted ad?”. Daves did not take the bait...she was cool and calm. Said it was important to the people of the state to know where the state candidates were on issues of such as this.

[sauropod]

God bless her!

[Bosco]

Daves to McCain:

Nuts.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.rep-am.com/news/elections/335713.txt

TV stations refuse to air controversial Republican ad

By David Ingram | McClatchy Newspapers

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte TV station says it will not air an advertisement from the state’s Republican Party that uses a sound bite from Barack Obama’s retiring minister.

“I just don’t think it’s appropriate to be on our air,” said Joe Pomilla, general manager for WSOC in Charlotte. “I think it’s offensive, and I’m not real comfortable with the implications around race.”

[TigersEye]

I just viewed the ad online and I don’t see a darned thing controversial about it other than Obama’s association with Wright. It’s a good ad, a valid ad. I gave the N. Carolina Pubbie Party $10 bucks to keep running it.

[SuziQ]

Several media outlets, including MSNBC, have reported that the party reversed course Thursday and would not run the ad

Sounds like they were trying to 'create' a story where none existed. They just wanted to talk about Republican racism, again, where it doesn't exists. Sounds like they also wanted to turn Republican voters against their party. Looks like that part worked, for a while, at least. Some Republicans just jump on any news report that puts the GOP in a bad light. You'd think they'd have figured out what the media is doing, by now.

[KeyLargo]

Keep the ad running

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